Hot microswimmers

Hot microswimmers

Hot microswimmers are self-propelled Brownian particles that exploit local heating for their directed self-thermophoretic motion. We provide a pedagogical overview of the key physical mechanisms underlying this promising new technology. It covers the hydrodynamics of swimming, thermophoresis and -os...

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Veröffentlicht in:The European physical journal. ST, Special topics Special topics, 2016-11, Vol.225 (11-12), p.2207-2225
Hauptverfasser: Kroy, Klaus, Chakraborty, Dipanjan, Cichos, Frank
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Atomic
Brownian motion
Classical and Continuum Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Fluid dynamics
Fluid flow
Hydrodynamics
Materials Science
Measurement Science and Instrumentation
Microswimmers – From Single Particle Motion to Collective Behaviour
Molecular
New technology
Optical and Plasma Physics
Osmosis
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Regular Article
Swimming
Thermophoresis
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Zusammenfassung:Hot microswimmers are self-propelled Brownian particles that exploit local heating for their directed self-thermophoretic motion. We provide a pedagogical overview of the key physical mechanisms underlying this promising new technology. It covers the hydrodynamics of swimming, thermophoresis and -osmosis, hot Brownian motion, force-free steering, and dedicated experimental and simulation tools to analyze hot Brownian swimmers.
ISSN:1951-6355
1951-6401
DOI:10.1140/epjst/e2016-60098-6